He paused to go searching the dressing room. This place, the place the guests reside at Benchmark Worldwide Area, was the positioning of his profession spotlight. As a member of the Colorado Avalanche, he sipped from the Stanley Cup after successful the championship over the Lightning right here in 2022.
This wasn’t fairly the identical excessive. But it surely was shut.
“It felt good,” Newhook mentioned. “I imply, it undoubtedly crossed my thoughts just a few instances once we had been heading again right here for Sport 7, simply realizing that I’d been there, executed that, on this constructing.
“I used to be simply hoping that it will keep the course and stay the identical right here, and it feels nice.”
Nobody felt that greater than St. Louis.
The 50-year-old performed almost 13 seasons with the Lightning from 2000-14, together with serving to them win the Stanley Cup in 2004. Throughout his time with the staff, he gained the Hart Trophy because the NHL’s most precious participant (2003-04), the Ted Lindsay Award because the “most excellent participant within the NHL,” as voted on by members of the NHLPA (2003-04), and the Artwork Ross Trophy because the scoring champion twice (2003-04, 2012-13).
How becoming then, that the 2004 Stanley Cup championship banner, in addition to his No. 26, which was retired by the Lightning on Jan. 13, 2017, was above his head as he exchanged respect with Lightning gamers and Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper within the handshake line after the ultimate horn had sounded.
He then proceeded to the dressing room and went full DiCaprio in rejoicing together with his gamers.
Simply name him the Wolf of Crescent Road, the downtown Montreal thoroughfare that is recognized for its energetic nightlife.
“I really feel like you possibly can’t take the participant out of me somewhat bit,” St. Louis mentioned. “I don’t attempt to be within the locker room rather a lot. To me, that is their area. It’s their staff, it’s not my staff. I’m attempting to steer them.
“However once in a while, I’ve moments with them, and I attempt to decide my spots. Tonight, on an evening like this, I needed to be with them. We had some enjoyable.”